TY - BOOK AU - Kojecký,Roger AU - Tate,Andrew TI - Visions and revisions: the word and the text SN - 9781443852456 AV - PN49 .V526 2013eb U1 - 809 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing KW - Religion in literature KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - Religion dans la littérature KW - Littérature KW - Histoire et critique KW - Literature & literary studies KW - bicssc KW - Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers KW - Christian spirituality & religious experience KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Literary KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction; Believing in Poetry; Serious literature; On 'Seeing' what God is 'Saying'; The Aw(e)ful Necessity of Bible Re-reading; 'What's the use of stories that aren'teven true?'; St Paul's Gifts to Blake's Aesthetic1; Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives- and Deaths; In So Many Words; 'A World of Accidents'; A Presence through Absence; Visions and Revisions; Spiritual Realism; Contributors N2 - Literary texts are more or less obliged to make reference to entities beyond themselves. Drawing on other texts, ideas previously written, or on the resources of language, they make their attempts to communicate, entertain, and enlist sympathy, or even to offer counsel. Some texts profess an a priori vision, others adopt a style of reporting only contingencies. A dialogic relation can be posited between the ideal and the real, heaven and earth, imagination and reason, langue and parole, esse UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=649545 ER -